Today has to be a bad day for two voting machine vendors. Diebold was told by the California SoS to send their system back to the Independent Test Authorities because some specific source code needs to be re-examined. In the meantime the state will not certify any Diebold voting machines. This morning a Temporary Restraining Order was filed by voters in New Mexico against the purchase of any Sequoia Edge voting machines. Included in the TRO is a statement from a developer of aides for disabled persons, who also happens to be blind, who correctly points out that the Sequoia AVC Edge DRE does not satisfy the disability access requirements of HAVA. There has been one disturbing announcement as a judge in North Carolina found for the state board of elections and against the voters of the state who pointed out that the voting systems certified by the state did not meet the law. Also in California a federal audit found that $3.8M of elections funds had been improperly spent by the previous SoS....

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All those memory cards have been suspect of having the seals broken, yet the independent observors were not allowed to see ANY of the records for what Blackwell stated as "security concerns"

You have here massive evidence now with the memory-card hack being proven, that should require testimony from multiple SoS officials, not just Kenneth Blackwell.

Obviously these "cards" and components do not dissapear.....I reccomend law enforcement & experts seize the records and like in New Mexico they initiate subpoenas. Blackwell will never give up his prizes willingly, you'll have to fight in court over it.

However it is greatly suspected these cards were frauded and that this can be proven in court against Diebold's own Ohio case.

Thomas Noe, now under conviction defended Blackwell in court for his actions but he is no longer Blackwell's attorney.....and I suspect those financial documents or whatever the CompuWare dispute is, plays a large part in this.

Saddam and terrorists are on the same side and use the same false arguments as liberals. Using the same false assertions as a murderous dictator who killed 100's of thousands of people would bother most people, but not liberals.

Its scary how aligned with evil liberals are.

Terrorists want us out of iraq just like liberals.

Terrorists want more rights in our court system and liberals are fighting to give it to them.

Terrorists want to be able to call who ever they want in the us to plan attacks, liberals are making sure they have that opportunity.

Terrorists hate Bush, liberals hate Bush.

Terroristswant to be released from captivity to continue their killing, liberals are working hard towards that goal.

Terrorists want the recent election not to matter, liberals completely IGNORED IT and say it didnt matter.

I can go on and on.

Motivation aside, your goals are aligned in lock step with terrorists. That would be enough to give any rational person pause, but then you're not rational.

The decision was by a trial judge. I was looking thru the court website. They do not seem to publish trial court opinions. I can't find the opinion, and I guess we will have to wait for EFF to post it on their website. They have posted the PDF verion of the complaint (link here).

The next level is the Appellate Division. This is similar to Southern California where the Superior Court has an Appellate Division.

Typically three judges will hear the appeal. Then it can go to the State Supreme Court. That is where a case of this type should go anyway, because it is a new statute that has not been tested.

For Ricky: I'm a historian and the author of five published books, so I'm qualified to comment on your use of the word "historic" to describe the recent Iraq election.

An event doesn't become historic until history has a chance to render its judgment about it. The election might possibly turn out to be historic, but by the evidence we have to go on, it probably won't. Why? Because the first Iraq election made no difference whatsoever; the killing and chaos have actually increased since then. Is there any rational basis for assuming it will be different this time? No.

During the Vietnam conflict several elections were held. People voted, sure...but the war raged on with no change in our policy of occupation and no change in the daily lives of Vietnamese citizens.

What you're doing, Ricky, is believing what George W. Bush wants you to believe. If I may speak for others on Bradblog, we know better. We think for ourselves. Our personal feelings about Bush don't matter, but our ability to separate his bullshit from reality does.

You got it ass-backwards. The Shiite majority now controls Iraq & is allied with the Kurds and Israel. Sunni Arabs have no say at all, there was massive fraud at the polls, and the entire thing was a massive failure.

Stick to what you're good at, lying like the scumbucket everyone knows you are.

You aren't any damn conservative. You're a complete FAKE neoliberal deceived by other neoliberals who lied to everyone about if they were conservative....